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Below the Box Score, June 29-July 15: Catching Up!
First off, apologies for the delay in the Below the Box Score for the past few weeks, I was out of the country. I’m sure you care. Besides, there was the all-star break in there, which makes this column pretty dull (unless someone gets ejected in the ASG!) Plenty of ejections over the past few…
Below the Box Score, Week of 6/25/17: 7 AL Ejections, 4 by White Sox!
The ejection race between the two leagues had gotten close last week, but this week the defending champion American League ran away with an 7-2 week on the back of four Chicago White Sox ejections on the week. Overall, ejections had a great week with Milwaukee having a bench player ejected in the top of…
Below the Box Score, Week of 6/19/17: More 40,000+ Games Than <20000!
After a week off, this week gets back to setting a couple of new records on the season. The Rays and A’s were both on the road this week which meant overall attendance looked pretty good. Only the White Sox, Pirates, Twins, Padres, Phillies, and Marlins drew fewer than 20,000 in a single game last…
Below the Box Score, Week of 6/12/17: A New Lowest Attendance of the Season
After a week off, this week gets back to setting a couple of new records on the season. First off, the Rays had only 8,971 show up to a game this week, which is the first sub-9,000 attended game of the season and the lowest since the Indians drew 8,766 on May 4th of 2016.…
Below the Box Score, Week of 6/5: Attendance On The Rise!
Not nearly as much excitement as last week with no new superlatives recorded for the season in the past week. But we did have a relatively good week for attendance, as the Indians had the lowest attendance of the week but it was all the way over 14,000, which was the highest “lowest attendance of the…
Below the Box Score, Week of 5/28/17: A Record Setting Week!
Nine more ejections this week. With all but one involving the away team, including multiple ejections for the Pirates, Athletics and Royals, it was a busy week in the away clubhouse. In other news, A NEW LOW ATTENDANCE RECORD FOR THE SEASON. The Rays managed only 9,014 to their Tuesday game against the Angels. That…
Below the Box Score, Week of 5/21/2017: Ejections Aplenty!
With ten ejections last week, we have had our busiest week of the season for the umpires here in Below the Box Score. Capped off with two bench clearing brawls (Dodgers-Marlins and Yankees-Rays) that had three ejections apiece. The AL and NL split the ejections 5-5, keeping the AL in the lead on the…
Below the Box Score, Week of 5/14/2017: First Sub-10k Game of the Year
It finally happened, over a month into the season, but we got our first sub-10,000 attended game of the year. And our second. And our third. THREE games this week were attended by four figure sums of fans as the Tampa Bay Rays hosted the Kansas City Royals in a four game series. Luckily for…
Below the Box Score, Week of 5/7: The Laid Back National League
Not much interesting to note this week, though strangely the American League continues to walk away with the ejections lead. This week four AL players or managers were ejected to the NL’s zero. That’s the second time this year that the NL has gone a week without an ejection. Once again eight teams drew fewer…
Below the Box Score, Week of 4/30/17: Yankees-Red Sox Fastest Game of the Week?
Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but a Red Sox-Yankees game was at the center of the time of game discussion this week. The only difference is that this time, the game went 2:21 instead of 4+ hours as usual. Rob Manfred may or may not have been seen laughing maniacally in his office…
Below the Box Score, Week Ending 4/23: The AL Takes the Ejection Lead
The American League went on an absolute rampage this week. With seven ejections to the National League’s zero, the AL has recaptured its lead in the ejections race by a score of nine to four. Meanwhile, data issues continue with our provider, making it look like the Braves had no fans in attendance (they did).…
Week 10 NCAA Basketball Attendance: Team Requests Nobody Attend, Still Outdraws 2 Others
Bad weather across parts of the country led to reduced attendance this week, which was particularly evident in that the number of games with fewer than 1,000 fans shot up to 76, nearly double the normal number for the week. With the bad weather, we saw a school request that it’s fans NOT attend the…